"Computer forensics is the specialized practice of investigating computer media for the purpose of discovering and analyzing available, deleted, or 'hidden' information that may serve as useful evidence in a legal matter". (Steen, Hassell 2004) Computer forensics has become a very important factor of criminal investigations. Since computers have become mainstream the need for a science that will deal with the technology has become an issue for the judicial and legal system. Some of the areas com...

NOTE: You will be prompted to reboot the computer after uninstalling the AOL Adapter. After the initial reboot, when AOL is launched, you will be prompted to reboot again. On some systems this may happen several times. NOTE: The Uninstall AOL Adapter button manually removes the files that make up the AOL Adapter. 2. SET WINDOWS TO SHOW ALL FILES WHEN SYSINFO IS NOT PRESENT a. Click on START, select PROGRAMS, then click on WINDOWS EXPLORER. b. Click on the VIEW menu, then select OPTIONS or FOLDER...

By Josh Vinny Introduction: There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has been logging all of the sites you have ever visited -- even after you " ve cleared your history, and Microsoft's Outlook Express has been logging all of your e-mail correspondence -- even after you " ve erased them from your Deleted Items bin. (This also includes all incoming and outgoing file attachments...

The society in which we live is complex and sophisticated. As consumers we demand a variety of goods and services to enable us to maintain the quality of life we enjoy. In order to satisfy these demands, suppliers must produce the goods and services, which the consumer wants by combining factors of production such as land, labor and capital in the most efficient manner. To do this the hiring of workers, rent or purchase of the appropriate premises, and maybe, even investing in plant and machiner...

The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence By Clifford Stoll " The Cuckoo's Egg' is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being 'recycled' to a computer analyst / webmaster. Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing him out into the unemploym...

A. What is hacking? Hacking is the act of penetrating computer systems to gain knowledge about the system and how it works. Hacking is illegal because we demand free access to ALL data, and we get it. This pisses people off and we are outcaste d from society, and in order to stay out of prison, we must keep our status of being a hacker / a secret. We can't discuss our findings with anyone but other members of the hacking / phreaking community for fear of being punished. We are punished for wanti...

The idea of sharing media files over the Internet has become a controversial subject as of late. While file sharing applications such as Napster are currently under fire from the US government and from Music Recording companies, one would think that no one would try to mimic Napster's technology. Johnny Deep, a computer consultant in Troy, New York, has been hailed as the creator of "The Next Napster". Deep is the mind behind "Aimster", named after his daughter, Aimee. Aimster piggybacks the com...

There are some parts of a Doctor's Surgery that could benefit from computerization. As time goes on technology will aid most types of work, for instance office work (Department of Trade and Industry, for example). Technology could be used in a Doctor's surgery to compute rise the patients' files, to print out prescriptions and certificates for things like immunizations. The patients' file would consist of their name & address, telephone number, D.O. B, sex, allergies, and diseases. In addition, ...

How to Maintain A Computer System Start a notebook that includes information on your system. This notebook should be a single source of information about your entire system, both hardware and software. Each time you make a change to your system, adding or removing hardware or software, record the change. Always include the serial numbers of all equipment, vendor support numbers, and print outs for key system files. Secondly periodically review disk directories and delete unneeded files. Files ha...

Erik Serna Business Computers Period 4 Trojan Horses A numerous amount of people depend on using remote access tools every day weather its to monitor other computers, Help people in large classes that cant get personal assistance, or even just for chatting with them. Every day a back door utility, otherwise known as the Trojan horse, infects hundreds if not even thousands of people over the Internet causing little annoyances to major destruction of a computer. Trojans are very helpful utilities ...

Have you ever needed to have more than one home computer for you and your family? Do you have two or more computers, but need to copy and / or share files and / or programs between them, but you don't know how? Do all of your computers need Internet access, but you don't want to have a phone line installed for each of them? Well, you can do all of this. I know, because this is what I did at my home. After doing research I found that there are several advantages for having your own Home Computer ...

Selling a computer to a customer is like getting married. Every time a customer comes in and buys a computer, I feel like I just got married again. Take Kate. She came into the shop one day and picked out the computer that she wanted. She paid for it and took it home. It was less than a week that she called back upset. She could not get word perfect to install on her computer. So off I go, to install word. Kate had deleted word, as well as a few other things. Kate told me that she was sorry. and...

Beginning Windows 98 Instructor: Zit a Pod any Final Exam 1. To format a high-density diskette to use on my PC, I would first click on My Computer, (which is located on the desktop) and insert your diskette, then right click on 3 floppy. Go to format, then make sure Quick or Full are checked, then click on the start button. 2. An Operating System is the basic instruction for your hardware and software so that the user can interface with them. An example of an operating system would be like Windo...

Legislative attention to computer crimes grew dramatically in the early 1980's, as computers became increasingly central to the conduct of business and politics. Instances of hackers, especially among young people, accessing government computer files for sport were becoming alarmingly frequent. A popular culture mythology developed, founded on the ex plo its of what were regarded as rebel heroes who could single-handedly spy on and sabotage the vast machinations of the corporate and government e...

Please make sure you read this file along with the online help before using DVgate. Readme file contents -DVgate Ver. 2.6 Overview -Precautions (Common) -Precautions (DVgate Motion) -NTSC / PAL Switcher DVgate Ver. 2.6 Overview DVgate Ver. 2.6 allows you to capture movie and still images from the DV device connected to the i. LINK (I 1394) jack of the PC, and also allows you to save the captured movie and still images to a file. You can also edit the captured movie file (s) and still image file ...